Title page for "You Shall See My Stud" (Primary Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed in center: 1831. / You Shall See / MY STUD, / Alken has made me Drawings of them, all Illustrative of their / PARTICULAR EXCELLENCIES. / O it was a Magnificent Stud. / In Leicestershire the thing should be done, / As if the Horse and Man were all one-- / For if by any chance they separate, / The Laugh is loud, not temperate. / 1, My bay Mare, one of the best Cover Hacks in England, & the neatest thing for 14 Miles an hour in the World. / 2, A bright bay Horse, good at all work, but super excellent at Gates, high timber, or double fences, ditch in. / 3, The brown Horse, very fast, and can get over anything within the power of horse. / 4, A gray Horse-- a tremendous sticker, and an astonishing brook Jumper. / 5, My favorite Chesnut Horse, highly qualified & courage enough to face any kind of fencing. / 6, A brown Horse, not quite sound but a wonder to get across a Country, all sorts of fencing alike to him, / but a perfect frog at bullock fences & high timber enclosures. / LONDON / Published July 1st. 1831, by R Ackermann, Junr. at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "HRH 8 / 27A"; in center: "B"
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